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    Supports→Epistemic relativism cannot be coherently formulated.

    Donald Davidson's argument against conceptual schemes demonstrates that intelligible disagreement between epistemic systems presupposes enough shared rationality to make radical epistemic divergence incoherent.

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    Key Terms

    Donald Davidson(as the originator of the theory referenced)
    A 20th-century American philosopher who studied how language works and how we understand each other through shared experiences.
    Epistemic systems(as used in epistemology (the study of knowledge))
    Different frameworks or methods for figuring out what counts as knowledge and how we know things are true.
    Incoherent(describing whether moral responsibility can exist)
    Logically impossible or contradictory; something that cannot make sense or cannot exist at the same time as something else.
    Intelligible disagreement(moral disagreement)
    A disagreement where both sides are making sense and using reasonable logic, even though they reach different conclusions.
    conceptual schemes

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    (how culture shapes interpretation of experiences)
    The mental frameworks and categories a person uses to understand and interpret the world around them, shaped by their culture, language, and upbringing.
    epistemic divergence(as what the argument claims cannot be truly radical)
    When two ways of knowing or understanding become so different that they completely diverge or split apart from each other.
    radical epistemic divergence(as what the argument claims would be incoherent)
    A complete, extreme separation where two ways of knowing are so fundamentally different that they share almost nothing in common.
    shared rationality(as what enables intelligible disagreement)
    A common ability to think logically and reason that both sides possess, allowing them to communicate and understand each other.

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